Finishings.

 Well at long last Ursula another one of my vintage knitting projects, the chronicles of which can be found scattered about this blog all over the place it has taken so long (but here might be as good a starting point as any if you desire to backtrack at all) is finished....time to grab your Trumpet and sound the triumphal fanfare!!

looks quite nice with my winter maxi skirt

 I actually finished knitting Ursula quite sometime ago but I was never mentally attuned into doing the deed and sewing the thing up.My sewing of hand knits is even more suspect than my sewing of fabric and I definitely have to be in my Happy Place if it is going to emerge looking like anything you might want to wear out and about in civilised society and be proud of.

For too long all of the component parts had languished not,thankfully, on The Pile of Shame but in the "never-do-today-what-you-can-put-off-successfully-for-at-least-another-couple-of-months" bag under the bed.This state of affairs was not right after all of the hard work and effort my sister put in with hand spinning and producing the yarn I  used so I thought it was about time that I did something constructive with it.So not wanting Ursula to languish much more and become possible moth fodder combined with another gloomy day ahead that you didn't feel as if you actually wanted to go out in and with the fire lit making everywhere cosy I set too and made the effort.

 Very rarely is my sewing of hand knitting exceptional and this is definitely not an exceptional example but it has turned out alright.The only problem I had was that try as I might I could not pick up the right number of stitches around the neck...mind you whatever the pattern this is always an impossible task for me (quite why I don't know just another unwritten rule of nature) but luckily my corners still turned out all right making the neckline nice and square.

My Ursula is possibly a bit more chunkier than any original version that might have been knitted in the 1940's but I am still pleased with it all the same and regard it as a success on various counts...
     1.It looks nice on
     2. It isn't overly itchy being pure wool
     3.It has revived another forgotten pattern
     4.It has to be completely unique being a vintage pattern made with my sisters lovely hand spun yarn.

Thank you again to my sister for her hard work and kindness in producing the yarn and indeed to that gallant British Polwarth who kindly and unselfishly donated its hard grown fleece to the cause.